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The Quarterly Journal of the Mythic Society (Second Series) January 1930

1929

But the division by months was not quite uniform among the races of the world either as to the number of days to the month or of the months to the year. [...] The feasts and fasts of primitive' societies were mostly regulated by the ordinances of the priests to whom was confined the knowledge of the stars and the compilation of the calendar. [...] In the chapter of the Skandant above referred to the feast to the Brahmins is also timed to the forenoon of the sixth day after the start. [...] After the death of this Bhishma the gods and half-gods have continued the Tarpanam and Puja to him year after year to the present day Bhishma was the patriarch of the Kaurava dynasty when the story of the Bharata opens. [...] She is the presiding deity of the moon and the worship of the one is the same as the worship of the other.
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Frontmatter
i-iii F.R. Sell, K. Devanathachariar view
Bhishma Panchakam
153-186 V. Iyer view
Svetasvataropanishad
187-195 D. Venkatramiah view
The Malayarayans of Travancore
196-200 L.A. Iyer view
Studies in Vijayanagara History
201-211 M.H. Sharma view
Epochs of the History of Kerala (Malabar)
212-220 K. Raja view
Jura “Prasasti” of Rashtrakuta Krishna III
221-225 T.T. Sharman view
Austric and Dravidian
226-232 L.V. Aiyar view
Studies in Bird-Myths No. xxix—on a Lushai-Kuki Aetiological Myth About the Great Horn-Bill
233-235 Sarat Mitra view
Studies in Plant-Myths No. VII—on a Bengali Myth About the Betel-Creeper
236-237 Sarat Mitra view
Notes
238-239 unknown view
Reviews
240-250 unknown view
Important Note
251-251 unknown view
Books received during the Quarter ending 31st December 1929
252-253 unknown view
Subscriptions & Donations received during the Half-Year ending 31 st December 1929
254-255 unknown view
Exchanges
256-259 unknown view

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